University of Massachusetts

The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The system includes four universities and a medical school. Across its campuses, the University of Massachusetts enrolls about 71,000 students.

The UMass system was ranked 56th in the world in 2010 by the Times World University Rankings. It was also ranked as the 19th best university in the world in the Times of London’s 2011 World Reputation Rankings. In 2012, the state of Massachusetts introduced $607 million in new bond funding to advance high-quality instructional and research facility projects throughout the UMass system.

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December 9, 2016 - UMass Medical School will be able to continue its research of heart disease with a new federal grant that will provide more than $800,000 in funding, officials said. The grant will go toward helping UMass fund the Worcester Heart Attack Study, ...

December 9, 2016 - WORCESTER - UMass Medical School researchers and colleagues in Toronto have found the first "off-switches" for a promising genome-editing technique which provides greater accuracy and efficacy in manipulating targeted genetic material. ... is a good ...

December 8, 2016 - WORCESTER - Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School have been awarded a $788,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to study a protein that controls DNA duplication in cells, so that it can be targeted to treat cancer. The ...

December 6, 2016 - Inspired by a commencement address by AFL-CIO President George Meany in 1964, the university created a labor relations and research center that has uniquely prepared labor leaders in Massachusetts and throughout the country. The steps we are ...

November 29, 2016 - The ALS Association is awarding a $2 million grant to the ALS ONE-Massachusetts Partnership that will partially sponsor a University of Massachusetts Medical School project led by Robert H. Brown, Jr., MD, PhD, a world-renowned specialist in ...

November 17, 2016 - Funded by a $95 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and $55 million in university investments, the institute is filled with research labs and student training programs focused on drug delivery technology, therapeutic targeting ...

November 15, 2016 - AMHERST — University of Massachusetts hydrologist David Boutt and his research team are asking to receive water samples from citizens to help them establish a high-resolution map and database of natural chemical signatures found in surface water, ...

Energy hybrid

December 9, 2016 - To support the development of microgrids in south-east Asia, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is leading the renewable energy integration demonstrator — Singapore (Reids) project. When fully constructed Reids will be the largest ...

December 2, 2016 - "In a developed market, you are competing with cheaper forms of conventional power generation, such as gas and also hydro. Energy storage costs still have some way to come down for a hybrid plant like Kennedy Energy Park to be competitive," he said.

December 1, 2016 - SEATTLE - When firefighter paramedics Morlon Malveaux and Mark Pedeferri learned that their powerhorse diesel ambulance was going to be traded for a gas-powered hybrid they were more than a little concerned. The two, who run a Medic One rig ...